MRP: Richard Oxinden (senior) will
Richard Oxinden (senior) will
PROB 11/457 Noel 124-162 Will of Richard Oxinden of Rochester, Kent 30 September 1700
Contents
Abstract & context
Suggested links
See 30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London
See 3rd March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Old Baily Corner
See 21st March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London
See March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO
See 5th January 1666/67, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Lambeth
See 1st October 1667, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Lambeth
House in Lambeth (post-1666 fire, Sarah Wainman & Richard Oxinden lived here)
To do
Transcription
[THIS TRANSCRIPTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED, BUT REQUIRES CHECKING, AND THE ADDITION OF NOTES AND COMMENTARY, 14/10/11, CSG]
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN The Thirteenth day of October in the Third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady William and Mary by the grace of God over England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King and Queen exr Annodom One thousand six hundred ninety one I Richard Oxinden of the City of Rochester in the County of Kent Esq:r being in perfect mind and memory thanks be to God do make
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and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner following ffirst I bequeath my Soul to God that gave it My body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried by my Exeutrix the charge thereof not to exceed ten pounds And as for my worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me I dispose the same as followeth
IMPRIMIS I give to the poore of the parish where I shall be buried fforty shillings
ITEM I give to my Son Ensign Richard Oxinden fforty shillings
ITEM I give to my loveing cousens Edward Hopton and Constance his Wife fforty shillings a piece to buy each of them a Ring to wear in remembrance of me or otherwise to imploy as they shall think fit
ITEM I give to my well beloved Kinsman Richard Oxinden of Grays Inn in the County of Middx Esq:r fforty shillings
ITEM I give to my approved ffriend John Lloyd of the Inner Temple London Esq:r fforty shillings
ITEM I give to my honest ffreind Capt John Brewer heretofore Gentleman Pensioner to King Charles the Second fforty shillings
ITEM I give and devise unto Sarah my dear and loving wife all these my five pieces or parcells of Marsh Land containing by estimacon eighteen Acres with the appurtenances lying and being in Woodnesborough als Winsborough near the Town and Port of Sandwich in the said County of Kent now or late in the tenure or occupacon of Abraham ??Houles and William Mandy or their Assignes And all these my three pieces or parcells of Marsh Land called Abbotts Mead containing by estimacon sixt and twenty Acres more or less with the appurtenances in Shoulden in the said County of Kent now or late in the tenure or occupacon of Edward Morris or his Assignes and all other my Lands Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever with the appurtenances in Woodnesborough als Winsborough and Shoulden aforesaid or in either of them or elesewhere in the said County of Kent To have and to hold to her the said Sarah my Wife and to her heirs and Assignes for ever
ITEM all the rest and residue of my goods and chattles and personall Estate whatsoever not herein before by me otherwise disposed after my debts and Legacies paid I do give and bequeath unto my said loving wife Sarah who I hereby constitute ordain and appoint sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament And I do hereby countermand and revoke and make void all formerand other Wills by me at any time heretofore made or published
IN WITNESS whereof I the said Richard Oxinden the Testator have hereunto subscribed my name and set to my Seal the day and year first above written
RICHARD OXINDEN
Sealed Signed published and declared by Richard Oxinden the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of
E Hopton Jam: Thurstone Char: Dalyson John Bigg
Notes
John Strype: Greenwich
"Against the East Wall, a Monument for...Colonel Richard Oxenden, 1697. Aged 84. And Sarah his Wife, 1700. Aged 78"[1]
Possible primary sources
TNA
PROB 11/413 Coker 1-46 Will of Edward Hopton of Canon Frome, Herefordshire 28 February 1693
- ↑ 'Greenwich,' in John Strype, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster (London, XXXX), Ch. 12, App. 1, p. 92, viewed 07/03/12
